“Deeply researched and highly relevant.”?Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States

“Rich with interesting facts, arresting arguments, and compelling observations, it is essential reading.”?Daniel Kahneman, New York Times bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Brilliant . . . confronts what may be the most crucial question of our century: How can we ensure that the breathtaking, fast-paced technological revolutions ahead create the world we want?”?Eric Lander, founding director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

“An erudite, clear-eyed guide both to the history of radical technological change and to the deep political challenges that lie ahead.”?Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize?winning historian

“Extraordinary . . . utterly unmissable.”?Eric Schmidt, former CEO, Google

“Calm, pragmatic, and deeply ethical . . . enthralling reading.”?Angela Kane, former?UN under-secretary-general

“Sharp, compassionate, and uncompromising.”?Qi Lu, former COO, Baidu; former EVP, Microsoft Bing

“Truly remarkable, ambitious, and impossible to ignore . . . a persuasively argued tour de force.”?Nouriel Roubini, professor emeritus, New York University

“A practical and optimistic road map.”?Stuart Russell, professor of computer science, University of California, Berkeley

“A panoramic survey and a clarion call to action . . . Everyone should read it.”?Fei-Fei Li, co-director, Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI

“A brave wake-up call . . . indispensable reading.”?Tristan Harris, co-founder, Center for Humane Technology

“An extraordinary and necessary book . . . One leaves energized and thrilled to be alive right now.”?Alain de Botton, philosopher and bestselling author

“A persuasively argued tour-de-force.”?Nouriel Roubini, economist and bestselling author of Megathreats

“Read this essential book to understand the pace and scale of these technologies.”?Ian Bremmer, founder, Eurasia Group and bestselling author of The Power of Crisis

“A much-needed dose of specificity, realism, and clarity.”?Martha Minow, professor, Harvard Law School

“Incredibly compelling.”?Bruce Schneier, security technologist and bestselling author of A Hacker’s Mind

“Thought-provoking, urgent and written in powerful, highly accessible prose.”?Erik Brynjolfsson, Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab

“Deeply rewarding and consistently astonishing.”?Stephen Fry, actor, broadcaster and bestselling author

“The Coming Wave is a?realistic, deeply informed, and highly accessible?map of the unprecedented governance and national security challenges posed by artificial intelligence and synthetic biology.”?Jack Goldsmith, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University

“A strikingly lucid and refreshingly balanced account of our current technological predicament, The Coming Wave articulates the defining challenge of our era.”?Kevin Esvelt, biologist and associate professor, MIT Media Lab